Means for securing spinning-rings in their rails



(No Model.)

J. F. STRANGE 82; A. W. TABER.

. MEANS FOR SECURING SPINNING RINGS IN THEIR RAILS.

No. 247,430. Patented Sept. 20,1881.

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, W U J K UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN F. STRANGE AND ALBERT W. TABER, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MEANS FOR SECURING SPINNING-RINGSlN THEIR RAILS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 247,430, dated September 20, 1881,

Application filed October 23, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J OHN F. STRANGE and ALBERT W. TABER, citizens of the United States, residing at Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have in- Vented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Securing Spinning-Rings in their Rails; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referenoe being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the means for holding a spinning-ring in its place in the rail, whereby it can be easily attached or detached, and when in position will be securely held; and the novelty consists in the detail of the construction and arrangement of parts by which all this is accomplished, all as will now be more fully set out and explained.

Figure l is a vertical central section of the invention as applied to use. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the ring, showing the spring in position. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the sprirg.

In the accompanying drawings, A denotes the rail, and a the usual circular opening into which the ring B is fitted. The lower edge of this opening ais reamed out, flared, or enlarged ata,torthepurpose to behereinafterexplained. The ring B, otherwise of any usual or ordinary shape, is in its diameter at b of proper size to fit with suitable closeness into the opening a of the rail A, and the ring will be supported therein upon its flange 1). Near the lower end of the part b of the ring is a rabbet or groove.

B, all around the periphery, which affords a seat for the spring 0. This spring may be simply steel wire or of any other construction. It is, hen rigidly compressed, of about the proper diameter to fill the entire circumference of the rabbet or seat B. When, now, this spring has been put into the seat B around the ring, the part b of the ring can be easily forced into the opening a in the rail, and when the spring comes to the enlargement or flare a on the lower edge of the opening it will expand into it, and thus form a stop or key, as

it were, to lock the ring very securely into its place in the rail. When itis desired to remove the ring from this opening a very small force properly applied will answer to detach it.

If desired, a mere rabbet or enlargement around the wall of a will allow the spring to expand therein, and so answer the general ends now described.

Thus is afforded, in a very simple structure or combination of parts, a ring easily attached,

surely held in place when in use, and on occasion readily removed.

Having thus described our invention, what we consider new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

The combination of the rail A, havingcircular opening a, and enlarged or flared at a, the ring B, having flange b and surrounding rabbet or groove B, and the spring 0, as and for the purpose shown and described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN F. STRANGE.

ALBERT W. TABER.

Witnesses:

J. M. OUSHMAN, L. M. GUsHMAN. 

